Tim Burchett
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Of course, on yours, there are a few less than are on mine and Eli's.
But my point was, is that, you know, we have...
every time God puts his hand out, we've swatted it away.
It's the old adage, you know, this old redneck farmer's on a roof on his ladder and he starts falling.
He says, Lord, help me.
And then a nail catches his pant leg or his overalls.
And he says, never mind, Lord, I got it.
Well, in mine and Eli's and your minds, God put that nail there.
And I'm a big believer in that.
When I was county mayor, I used to ride around in these ice trucks, the snow trucks, and they'd go out and salt the roads there in Knoxville, Knox County.
And we hit this black ice spot.
I'll never forget it.
It just almost went slow motion, and we were just sliding.
I looked over, and we were going off a cliff.
I looked down there.
There was a dead deer carcass.
I thought, how ironic is that?
And that thing, that truck goes like this.
It just goes, and it just stopped.
And there was one tree there.